Space Junk is a collection of ten short stories. Each was inspired by events that took place during 1989 when the British author was on a 7-month trip to the United States of America, her first visit. The profound collision of cultures she met at every turn resulted in stories that focus on expressions glimpsed from the corner of an eye, snippets of conversation overheard in a store, looks that pass, seemingly unnoticed, between two people, and what lies behind them all - the unwritten, the unspoken, the unacknowledged. The tiny details and crystallising flashes of realisation contained in...